Windows' Built-in or Lenovo's Bluetooth Stack

[loyukfai]

Usually prefer Windows' drivers, but just found out it doesn't have a built-in driver for Bluetooth headsets.

Could use a 2006 CSR stack available on the Net, or maybe switch to Lenovo's stack...?

What's your take...?

Cheers.

[loyukfai]

BTW, there are 2 services provided by the headet - "Headset" and "Handsfree Telephony". Enabling the former works for Skype. Any idea what's the use of the latter profile...?

Thanks in advance!

[crashnburn]

Yes. Especially for Windows 7 on X61T/ T61.. which one should we use?

[loyukfai]

You mean to use the Lenovo's stack...?

[crashnburn]

Yes. Especially for Windows 7 on X61T/ T61.. which one should we use?

[loyukfai]

I'm sticking with the built-in stack and use the 2006 CSR drivers, for now. Have tried the Lenovo stack before, but there were some issues, which I forgot...

After all these years, I expected that Windows would have better built-in support for Bluetooth...

Sigh.

[loyukfai]

OK I switched to Lenovo's stack at last cause the built-in stack doesn't send files to my Android devices reliably...

Other observations...

• More built-in drivers included, including one for Bluetooth headset which I had to download from somewhere before.
• The Bluetooth icon becomes more ugly.
• As more drivers and Bluetooth profiles are supported, it brings up an extra icon for the Android device under Windows Explorer as well.
• It adds a "Bluetooth Devices" folder in the Program Menu.

Cheers.

Edit: Scratched that, the Lenovo stack doesn't send files to the Android device reliably either.

Even worse, the headset becomes unusable in Skype.

Uninstalled and move back to Windows' default.

[BigCatAndy]

Hello @all,

I'm trying to replace MS-Bluetooth stack by the one from Lenovo in Windows7. Or, better to say, remove the one from MS and keep just "Lenovo"'s. Any idea how to do it?

Regards,
Andrey.

[loyukfai]

The Lenovo installer will replace the driver automatically, IIRC.

Cheers.

[BigCatAndy]

The Lenovo installer will replace the driver automatically, IIRC.

Cheers.

No. At the present I have 2 entries in the "Device manager" - Lenovo and MS enumerator. And when I uninstall MS stack and then enable Bluetooth again (with a hardware switch), it installs MS stack again.

Regards,
A.